What I forgot to mention though is that I am pleased the BBC managed to do a full history of the sound, not just the fact that it was used as some annouying frog sound. I actually first heard the sound under the “Insanity Test” title.

I was pointed in the direction of this by one of my work colleagues. It’s a brilliant little poke at getting Windows Virii to run under Linux+Wine; and therefore awarding each virus a “Linux Compatible” score.

I went for a lovely dinner with my friends last night in a lovely restaurant called “Alfresco” in Brighton. It’s an Italian seafood restaurant which over looks the sea and the reminants of the West Pier.

I imagine that on a clear summer’s night the view would be phenomenal, but it’s January and it was chucking it down, so we didn’t get to see too much of that!

Anyway, the food was great, the company wonderful, and the service amazing. I can’t complain. Go there.

My friend Simon, as Mr Incredible and him as some strange looking girl.

These two, I took last Sunday at about 8 am when I went Rowing. You can’t really make it out, but it was a beautiful January morning, crisp but not cold, and with a little fog in the air. Makes getting up worth while!

Here’s a pretty good example of why Captchas are a very good way of stopping spammers from signing up for things. With this level of obscurity, it’s getting kind of ridiculous.

I read a little while ago that most Captchas can be read by standard OCR software, and judging by the way that spammers and scammer are able to produce software for their “cause”, it probably wouldn’t take them that long to produce some classifier AI network that could handle the rest that off-the-self OCR software can’t read.

But it get’s better than that – apparently the clever little devils have managed to get around this in a far easier way – by getting people to read the Captchas. Simply, all they do is get people to sign up for a free Porn site, and show them a captcha from another site. Real person enters correct letters/numbers, they get free email address. System defeated.